Conrad Hackett 
Check out how land is used in the United States. Cows take up the most space!
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-us-land-use/
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More chocolate, more Nobel prizes
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/the-curious-wavefunction/chocolate-consumption-and-nobel-prizes-a-bizarre-juxtaposition-if-there-ever-was-one/ Second in a 🧵 of #2022TopToots
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/the-curious-wavefunction/chocolate-consumption-and-nobel-prizes-a-bizarre-juxtaposition-if-there-ever-was-one/ Second in a 🧵 of #2022TopToots
This map shows only people. It is a beautiful illustration of where people are concentrated.
If you squint, you can see Australia and New Zealand.
Map by Alasdair Rae https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/3d-map
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Check out this scatterplot of health spending per capita (x axis) & life expectancy (y axis) in OECD countries (lines = averages).
The United States sits alone in the bottom right quadrant due to its much higher spending and below-average life expectancy.
More info: https://oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/ae3016b9-en/1/3/1/index.html?itemId=/content/publication/ae3016b9-en&_csp_=ca413da5d44587bc56446341952c275e&itemIGO=oecd&itemContentType=book
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Estimated gender pay gap within job (same occupation at same firm)
🇯🇵 Japan 26%
🇰🇷 S Korea 19%
🇺🇸 US 14%
🇩🇪 Germany 13%
🇪🇸 Spain 12%
🇮🇱 Israel 12%
🇨🇦 Canada 12%
🇳🇴Norway 9%
🇫🇷 France 7%
From study https://nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01470-z#
by @OlivierGodechot & 28 others
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🇯🇵 Japan 26%
🇰🇷 S Korea 19%
🇺🇸 US 14%
🇩🇪 Germany 13%
🇪🇸 Spain 12%
🇮🇱 Israel 12%
🇨🇦 Canada 12%
🇳🇴Norway 9%
🇫🇷 France 7%
From study https://nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01470-z#
by @OlivierGodechot & 28 others
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Be sure to catch the end of this clever NASA "climate spiral" video showing monthly global temperature changes between 1880 and 2021
https://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resources/300/video-climate-spiral/
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https://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resources/300/video-climate-spiral/
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This amazing map shows travel time from London to the rest of the world in 1881
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2022 Press Freedom Rank
1 Norway
2 Denmark
3 Sweden
16 Germany
19 Canada
24 UK
38 Taiwan
41 Burkina Faso
42 US
71 Japan
86 Israel
110 Brazil
119 Qatar
149 Turkey
150 India
155 Russia
168 Egypt
175 China
178 Iran
180 N Korea
https://rsf.org/en/index
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1 Norway
2 Denmark
3 Sweden
16 Germany
19 Canada
24 UK
38 Taiwan
41 Burkina Faso
42 US
71 Japan
86 Israel
110 Brazil
119 Qatar
149 Turkey
150 India
155 Russia
168 Egypt
175 China
178 Iran
180 N Korea
https://rsf.org/en/index
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Check this out -- major cities in North America replaced by major cities across the Atlantic at the same latitude.
The Gulf Stream makes winters less severe in many European cities than it is in their U.S./Canadian counterparts.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/d8tbs5/major_cities_and_towns_in_north_america_replaced/
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Can you spot the circles?
It took me a long time. Once you see them, they'll seem obvious.
This is the Coffer Illusion, by Anthony Norcia
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The only things on this map are railroads!
https://reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/lj4wqt/the_railroads_of_the_world_oc/
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https://reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/lj4wqt/the_railroads_of_the_world_oc/
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80% of Black Americans said social media help shed light on rarely discussed issues; the same share of White Americans said these sites distract from more important issues.
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2018/07/11/public-attitudes-toward-political-engagement-on-social-media/ #PewResearch
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https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2018/07/11/public-attitudes-toward-political-engagement-on-social-media/ #PewResearch
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Which US state has the largest share of people with ancestry from each European country?
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/q9ct5b/what_us_state_has_the_largest_ancestry_in/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/q9ct5b/what_us_state_has_the_largest_ancestry_in/
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Check out this cool elevation map of the contiguous US
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/jslbn9/us_elevation_tiles_oc/
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The US is the only country with more civilian guns than people
https://smallarmssurvey.org/database/global-firearms-holdings
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https://smallarmssurvey.org/database/global-firearms-holdings
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Ben@conradhackett This will never cease to horrify me
Stormcrow@conradhackett Early neutering saves lives.
SideWalkAstonomyNetherlands@conradhackett And most of these guns in most countries, are farmers hunting guns. Not for killing the neighbours like as in the USA.
Kansas Grant@conradhackett Sadly, that does nothing to dispel the stereotype that my own state of Kansas is flat.
PC
Echuta@conradhackett
Fun fact. The highest elevation here in Broward County South Florida is Mt. Trashmore at the county landfill/dump.
Fun fact. The highest elevation here in Broward County South Florida is Mt. Trashmore at the county landfill/dump.
Patty Kimura
Tod Hilton 
@conradhackett @djwfyi That's pretty amazing!
Patrick McLaughlinWeirdly, this seems to explain some things. But not the ones one might first expect.
Martin Vermeer FCD@McPatrick @conradhackett Pogrom purple seems clear though.
Chris White@conradhackett To me, the agreement is more striking than the differences. Majorities from all groups on all questions, and spread is always less than 20 points. And 66 percent of Blacks agreed with the 80 percent of Whites that perceived distractions. It seems to me the differences are less stark than your remarks implied to me.
Morgana@conradhackett Slightly depressing that the dichotomy suggests there is little for White, Black and Hispanic to empathize and discuss on common ground…..
Agora@morganalafee @conradhackett I wish I were shocked. But I have been lamenting about something connected to this. For example, as a black person, I have often felt that voting rights and gerrymandering would be resolved if white people felt impacted by these discriminatory practices in voting. I feel in my bones that we would end gerrymandering if white folks thought this negatively affected them as well. Voter suppression is often viewed as a black people's problem
Marverde@conradhackett
This confirms that I definitely do not think like a white American.
This confirms that I definitely do not think like a white American.
Tea ☕️That is interesting. Especially that the question as a whole flips with Hispanics staying at the 60ish%
@conradhackett, that is a massive disconnect for sure.
Jon Sullivan@conradhackett That's crazy!! I was staring and staring at this, thinking "there are no circles here", and then my teenager walked in and glanced at it and pointed out the 16 circles right in front of me! Brains are weird.
letasch@joncounts @conradhackett Absolutely crazy.. took me a minute and then 🤯
Thom Pintello@conradhackett
Yes! Took me about twenty seconds of staring at it. Amazing.
Yes! Took me about twenty seconds of staring at it. Amazing.
Mike Smith@conradhackett I'd seen this one before, so I knew they were there. Still it took a bit of concentration to see them again.
barefootliam@conradhackett in the end i cheated and looked it up, and can see them now, wow :) For anyone else frustrated, https://littlethings.com/lifestyle/coffer-illusion-circles/3451621-5 has a copy with the circles marked.
@barefootliam @conradhackett
Finding solutions is not cheating. It's being resourceful and learning. Tx.
Finding solutions is not cheating. It's being resourceful and learning. Tx.
Dr. Heather Hinam@conradhackett Yup. Got them. You just have to let your eyes go out of phase for a second.
MichaelLicitra@conradhackett This is sick!
Tim Palmer@conradhackett
My geography knowledge isn’t too embarrassing, but I have to continually remind myself of how high in latitude most of Europe is.
My geography knowledge isn’t too embarrassing, but I have to continually remind myself of how high in latitude most of Europe is.
Lovely Flags@conradhackett 42nd for the land of fReE SpEeCH
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴Abysmal.
And probably deteriorating.
Em
Normal Guy@conradhackett Surprised that Japan is 71 and India being the largest democratic country is 150. The bottom ones make sense though.
Subhash Rai@normalguy @conradhackett
Behind the rank for the “largest democracy in the world” lie stories of individual misfortunes and an unprecedented systemic decline.
It is no surprise that it is being accused of being an “Electoral Autocracy,” hence the rank.
But there’s still hope.
Behind the rank for the “largest democracy in the world” lie stories of individual misfortunes and an unprecedented systemic decline.
It is no surprise that it is being accused of being an “Electoral Autocracy,” hence the rank.
But there’s still hope.
charvakaIn India journalists are intimidated, assaulted and even killed by powerful people for publishing things they don’t like. The law is generally well-written, but it is not consistently enforced. And things have gotten worse for press freedom in India in the last few years under Modi. So I am not surprised by the ranking, just really saddened.
@charvaka @conradhackett Thx for the education. 👍
Sven Olaf Potstada 🇩🇪🇿🇦@normalguy @conradhackett what did I miss about Japan?
Josh Soref@jsoref @mastodon.social @normalguy @conradhackett Thank you. The drop is definitely valid... not knowing much about the country, I had it also rank higher than it’s previous rank (67th) in my mind though... but sure seems a valid classification and ranking given the facts on the ground
Shebanator@conradhackett so few countries in the green...
Ford Eytou@conradhackett We all know what #42 means. 👍 🚀
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Kerim Friedman 傅可恩@conradhackett Really strange for them to rank Taiwan so low. The only reason they give is that "journalists suffer from a very polarised media environment dominated by sensationalism and the pursuit of profit" - is this really any different from any other developed country? Seems like a strange reason. to lower the rank...
ecow@conradhackett Italy 58....
Barbara@conradhackett I see Ireland has moved from 12th to 6th
rosethornne 🌻@conradhackett Frankly surprised the US is that high up 😕
Ilja Vishnevski@conradhackett It's fascinating and frightening to see how close supposed press freedom havens have drifted towards the bottom. If we also consider the "business partners" of EU and US, we get a picture of what free press really means to those - a nuisance at best.
Tea 🥄🖤🐘🤍♾️@conradhackett Australia be at 39.... Yikes 😬
Carlos Baquero@conradhackett happy to see my country 🇵🇹 in the green and position 7.
@conradhackett you are missing the most interesting examples like Costa Rica / an island of press freedom… maybe we should consider why? good examples are more useful bad ones ;)
legraLeGra@conradhackett Makes me think of Nellie Bly’s 1890 book
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Around_the_World_in_Seventy-Two_Days
ChuffMeister@conradhackett I remember seeing a time map in the 90’s for how long you could use a stolen credit card based on location.
Trust criminals to innovate!
Trust criminals to innovate!
MGFarm 
@conradhackett amazing how much closer the world has gotten since then.